Tennis News -
At $525K Indianapolis Tennis Championships,

[R2] (WC) Rajeev Ram (USA,210) l Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE,77) 16 67(1)

Doubles -
[QF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) l Ashley Fisher (AUS)/ Tripp Phillips (USA) 26 0-1 Retd (back injury to Bopanna)
[QF] Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Bobby Reynolds (USA) bt (2) Martin Damm (CZE)/ Pavel Vizner (CZE) 63 76(4)

Hoping for not serious back injury to Rohan ... Rajeev continue to impress in doubles.
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At $75K Aptos Challenger, CA, USA

[R2] Prakash Amritraj (IND,204) bt (WC) Phillip Simmonds (USA,667) 64 62
[QF] Prakash Amritraj (IND,204) vs Andrea Stoppini (ITA,307)

Doubles -
[QF] Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Lester Cook (USA) l Noam Okun (ISR)/ Amir Weintraub (ISR) 76(3) 46 (5)10

Prakash continue his amazing run in singles with another easy victory ... In quarter-final he will face Italian Andrea Stoppini, who defeated Alex Bogdanovic to break his some sort of hot streak from last week's Granby Challenger
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At €30K+H Manchester Challenger, Great Britain (Grass)

[QF] (4) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) bt Pavel Snobel (CZE)/ Jan Vacek (CZE) 61 61
[QF] Purav Raja (IND)/ Gouichi Motomura (JPN) l (1) Adam Feeney (AUS)/ Robert Smeets (AUS) 64 26 (6)10

[SF] (4) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) vs (2) Joshua Goodall (GBR)/ Michael Ryderstedt (SWE)

Harsh and Ashutosh chemistry working like an oiled machine ... Very easy dominating victory, where it looked all chips falling at correct places as our pair wanted ... They should keep playing together, as both can achieve more in doubles as pair rather pairing with others at challenger level.

Also fighting performance by Purav with his Japanese partner against solid Aussie pair.
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At € 42.5K Rimini Challenger, Italy (Red Clay)

[QF] (4) Stephen Amritraj (IND)/ Mustafa Ghouse (IND) bt Melle Van Gemerden (NED)/ Peter Wessels (NED) 61 64

[SF] (4) Stephen Amritraj (IND)/ Mustafa Ghouse (IND) vs (1) Leonardo Azzaro (ITA)/ Marco Crugnola (ITA)

Good win on clay for Indian pair, but now top-seed local pair in semis.
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At $15K Syria F2 Futures, Damascus

[QF] GAJJAR Rohan (IND,837) bt (6) SITAK Dmitri (RUS,641) 63 61
[SF] GAJJAR Rohan (IND,837) vs (8) ARSENOV Danila (RUS,705)

Another good easy victory against higher rank player to move into semis ... Go Rohan.
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At $10k Romania F12 Futures , Lasi (Clay)

[R1] (4) GOH Steven (AUS)/ LIBERHAN Tushar (IND) bt ERLIC Laurentiu-Antoniu (ROU)/ PALAS Valentin (ROU) W/O
[QF] (4) GOH Steven (AUS)/ LIBERHAN Tushar (IND) l AURADOU Marc (FRA)/ VIGNE Laurent (FRA) 36 64 (3)10